In soft regions are born soft men.
HERODOTUSThe ear is a less trustworthy witness than the eye.
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Men trust their ears less than their eyes.
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Where even a falsehood must be told, let it be told.
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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.
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Circumstances rule men; men do not rule circumstances.
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Adversity has the effect of drawing out strength and qualities of a man that would have laid dormant in its absence.
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Many exceedingly rich men are unhappy, but many middling circumstances are fortunate.
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Haste in every business brings failures.
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A multitude of rulers is not a good thing. Let there be one ruler, one king.
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Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.
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If a man insisted always on being serious, and never allowed himself a bit of fun and relaxation, he would go mad or become unstable without knowing it.
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The worst pain a man can have is to know much and be impotent to act.
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One should always look to the end of everything, how it will finally come out. For the god has shown blessedness to many only to overturn them utterly in the end.
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All of life is action and passion, and not to be involved in the actions and passions of your time is to risk having not really lived at all.
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It [Egypt] has more wonders in it than any other country in the world and provides more works that defy description than any otherplace.
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The trials of living and the pangs of disease make even the short span of life too long.
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If someone were to put a proposition before men bidding them choose, after examination, the best customs in the world, each nation would certainly select its own
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A woman takes off her claim to respect along with her garments.
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We have two useless gods who never leave our island, but like to dwell in it constantly, Poverty and Helplessness.
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Whatever comes from God is impossible for a man to turn back.
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Some give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal; while others, on the contrary, obtain a victory by exerting, at the last moment, more vigorous efforts than ever before.
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Good masters generally have bad slaves, and bad slaves have good masters.
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Unless a variety of opinions are laid before us, we have no opportunity of selection, but are bound of necessity to adopt the particular view which may have been brought forward.
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These ‘messengers’ will not be hindered from accomplishing at their best speed the distance which they have to go, either by snow, or rain, or heat, or by the darkness of night.
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Historia (Inquiry); so that the actions of of people will not fade with time.
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Before a man dies, hold back and call him not happy but lucky.
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History is marked by alternating movements across the imaginary line that separates East from West in Eurasia.
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